Happy Hallow... Wacky Tacky Day

Happy Halloween to everyone! I didn't really celebrate, but did wear an orange top and Halloween jewelry to work. Oh yeah, and ate a couple mini candy bars lol.

I also got to experience Rob's annual ritual of picking out an entire outfit that doesn't match for Riverview High School's "Wacky Tacky Day". It's part of homecoming week tradition, and Rob really gets into it. He raids my closet for accessories (the purple scarf/belt was a birthday gift last year from my dear friend Charlotte, and the gold hoop earring and FSU scrunchie/bracelet are mine as well) and digs deep into his own for whatever he might find. He does this the night before so he's ready to dress in the morning. Here's this year's getup:

Before he got all dressed up, we spent some time in my scraproom (you can see the purple walls behind him) chatting and playing with the dogs. We were amazed at the amount of dog hair that was on the floor when we were done! The vacuum got a good workout this evening lol.

Hope everyone had a great day!
Jenn

Organ Donation

My posts so far have been light-hearted, but now I have a serious topic - organ donation. If you haven't signed up to be an organ donor, please do - and make your wishes known to your family. It's something many people don't think about, and too many people on transplant lists die waiting. One person's organs can save 8 lives.

This plea comes about from a new friend's experience. Her darling little girl, Savannah, has a rare liver disease and has been on the transplant list for a new liver for 6 months. Please watch this video montage of her story and talk to your family today.
http://www.onetruemedia.com/shared?p=405f2f547cfd82d9b619e3&skin_id=601&utm_source=otm&utm_medium=email

Thanks for reading,
Jenn

Beer!

Rob and I enjoy tasting new beers, just like many people who enjoy tasting new wines.

We spent this past weekend in Orlando at the Sunshine Challenge http://www.cfhb.org/sunshine/index.html, a beer convention and competition for hand-crafted beers. He didn't enter anything, but plans to next year. We participated in most of the events, including dinner/beer tastings Friday night, pub crawl (took a bus to three different pubs, along with raffles and a keg on the bus itself), and Saturday night dinner. We had a great time talking to everyone, and felt welcome although many knew each other and we didn't know anyone.

Oh, we checked in before dinner and got name badges with our pic and our "title" for the weekend - Rob named me "Beer Bitch" and he was "Hop Head". It was a great idea, because everyone wanted to know everyone else's titles so it encouraged conversation.

Here's a pic of the beer truck and the Friday beer tasting - notice there's not too many people there, so it was really nice!

This morning thing sucks!

I've survived week one of my new job. I like it so far, and have been already been assigned a few things with more to come. But wow, does it suck getting up before it's light out, and seeing the sun rise while I drive to work! Many of you know I am soooo not a morning person - this just proves it! Thank God for sweet tea :)
Jenn

Fresh Start

I start a new job tomorrow - I'm excited because it's my first new job in over 9 years and everyone I've met so far is really nice. Of course I have no complaints with having 6 weeks off in between! Wish me luck :)

They fixed our pane!

I called The Glass Doctor this morning and they came out this afternoon and put in a brand-new piece of glass! Yay! When I called the guy actually answered the phone saying "We fix your panes", which I think is hilarious :)

Have a great weekend!
Jenn

How on Earth did that happen?!?

We just spent a fun evening cleaning up glass. Yes, glass. LOTS of glass. Rob was sitting in the living and yelled to me to see where I was - I was in my scrap room (of course), and he mumbled something about "that's weird". Upon investigation, our back sliding glass door had popped and was crackling into thousands of little bits.
We decided it was best to knock the rest of the glass out, so with plywood to protect the house (and himself), Rob pushed the rest out. We then spent a good 45 minutes sweeping it up with a dustpan and broom. The joys of home ownership!

Hope your evening was better than ours!
Jenn

Daughtry!

I went to see Daughtry http://myspace.com/daughtry in concert last night with dh and some friends. What a great show! I even enjoyed the opening act, The Sunstreak myspace.com/thesunstreak (well, they are actually better on CD than live, but I'm glad I bought their CD!) Anyhow, I got some awesome pics and some video too! Here are a couple:
Drummer Joey Barnes and Chris Daughtry.
The stage was simple and very cool. I love their logo, ended up buying an over-priced t-shirt with it lol.
And here's one of me and dh before the show. We hardly ever get pics of us together, and this one turned out nice I think :)
Off to look at the rest of my pics now :)
Jenn

Looks like I figured it out!

I officially have a blog now, I've joined the 21st century!
So now that you're here, I'll share a couple things I made yesterday. The first is a perpetual calendar that I got in the crafts section at Wal-Mart and decorated using Scrap 'Til Dawn's Homemade Midnight Kit along with Gin-X Express-Ons rubons.


The next one is kind of goofy, but it means a lot to me. I recently quit my job after 9 years, and when I e-mailed all the people I worked with to tell them I got back some really nice notes. So I scrapped them all in a mini book using Imaginisce's Exotic East paper and embellishments (thanks Donna!). Although the flowers were part of the line, they didn't come close to matching - so I inked them.

I made something else but it's a gift so I can't post it here :)

This is just a test - I really have no idea what the heck I'm doing, just thought it might be easier to have one spot to share my scrapping and paper-crafting creations rather than posting them all over the place. Not sure how often I'll update because I'm not sure how often I'll create something lol. :)